Latest iPool Features

The World's leading software for online music promotion and digital
B2B music distribution is now even better and more user friendly.
Now you can work even more conveniently and more easily.

(This page describes only the latest features. If you want to see a
description of all the features of iPool, click here)

Version 3.9

This latest version of iPool brings you lots of new and extremely useful enhancements to existing features that will make your music promotion even more convenient and efficient.

Now Stay in Touch with Your Recipients Even Easier

Discover all those new and helpful ”E‑Mail” buttons that we have added in more places to make sending e‑mails to your media and business partners even simpler and easier.

Now you can respond promptly and directly to feedback from your media and business partners: You will find an “E-Mail” button located next to each feedback about your releases. Just click one of these to send an e‑mail to that particular recipient. Simply brilliant: iPool will automatically insert an appropriate subject line along with the recipient’s feedback as a quotation in your e‑mail reply.
You will also find an “E-Mail” button for each download in both the download log for a release and in the global download log. Just click one of these buttons to send an e-mail to the respective recipient.

Automatic Deactivation of Downloads

Easily control down to the minute how long your releases will be available for downloading.

If you wish, you can now set a time for each release that limits how long your recipients may download the tracks of a given release. No further downloads of tracks will be possible after the time has expired. However, additional files, such as video clips, booklets and press photos, may continue being downloaded.

Even More Ways to Find Specific Recipients

Earlier versions of iPool let you use a number of search criteria to almost instantly find recipients in your database. Now practical just got better: iPool can also search for users from a specific postal code or location.

Full Control over Additional Automatically Generated Files

iPool has long been able to automatically generate additional files for each release, including PDF info sheets and metadata as XML files. Starting now you can choose yourself exactly which of these files iPool should generate and offer to your recipients.

Now Even More Info in Exported Download Logs

A longstanding feature of iPool has been the ability to conveniently export all download logs as a CSV file, which you can then view, sort and edit in your favorite spreadsheet format (e.g. Microsoft Excel).

Starting now, exported download logs will also include the website and country of each recipient. One of the things this new feature lets you do is rapidly sort a download log by country. Or you can easily create extracts containing only those recipients from a particular country.

Version 3.8

The New Album View.
Clear and Concise.
A Feast for Your Eyes.

We have completely reinvented the release view in this new version of iPool and given it an upscale and inspired look.

This redesign provides your media and business partners with an even faster look at your releases. All key information, such as cover artwork, genre, label and release date, is displayed in a way that is even more compact and clearly arranged. And it only takes one click for your recipients to listen to or download any release they choose.

Just click a cover and the also newly designed details page appears and presents you with a wide range of additional information and actions. This page now uses thumbnails and stylish file-type icons to show other files, such as high-resolution band photos. This feature helps your recipients more rapidly locate and download the files they need.

Version 3.7

The New iPool Audio Player.
Breathtakingly Fast and
Ready to Run on any Platform.

Thanks to the preview function, recipients have been enjoying rapid access to your music selections since the very first version of iPool. Up to now, the media player installed on the recipient's computer, such as iTunes or Windows Media Player, was used to play the tracks.

This latest iPool version sets a totally new standard. Using the latest web technologies, we have created the new and integrated iPool Audio Player, which is not only ready to run on every kind of browser and operating system, but also delivers a standardized, yet bold new look. What’s more, this new audio player launches each track with lightning speed and gives you in a clear and organized manner all the features that a state-of-the-art audio player should have.

Your media and business partners now have total freedom. They can listen to the tracks with the new iPool Audio Player or, as before, on whatever media players are installed on their computers.

Version 3.6

Send Newsletters Even More Accurately.
And in Next to No Time.

One of the longstanding features of iPool has been your ability to use access lists to specify exactly who gets access to which releases, and who receives newsletters.

The new version of iPool takes you one step farther and lets you restrict newsletter distribution to a certain part of the access list. Now you can inform your recipients within designated countries, and in specific user groups or pools. Or with just one click of the mouse you can exclude all the contacts that you have already informed about a release.

Not only may you mix and match the criteria any way you like, you can always see which recipients meet the criteria you have chosen. From now on you have even more control over who gets which newsletter.

Here are just a few ways you can benefit from using these practical functions:

Improve your worldwide collaboration.

Companies with worldwide operations or global promotion staff can use this new feature to inform only their media and business partners within the country of a specific branch or division.

Send newsletters in different languages.

Achieve an even greater success rate for your newsletters. Your media and business partners will love getting a newsletter in their native language.

Easily inform new media and business partners about the latest releases.

Once you have imported new contacts or granted access to new applicants, you can then send a newsletter to everyone that has not yet been notified.

Send newsletters with different content to different user groups.

Target and regularly supply specific groups (the press, radio stations etc.) with customized information.

Easily promote your music in multiple phases.

Take advantage, for example, of the ability to send a newsletter to radio stations this week, to journalists next week and to DJs two weeks from now.

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